Read the excerpt below and answer the question. you sea! i resign myself to you also-i guess what you mean, i behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers, i believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me, we must have a turn together, i undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, dash me with amorous wet, i can repay you. in this excerpt from "song of myself," which literary device does whitman use to address the sea? alliteration allusion apostrophe onomatopoeia

The literary device that Whitman uses to address the sea in this excerpt from "Song of Myself" is apostrophe.

According to the dictionary, apostrophe, aside from being a punctuation mark, is a literary device that consists of "the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically" (Merriam-Webster.)

In this excerpt, Whitmant is clearly personifying the sea by adressing directly to it as a person ("You sea!") and as if it could understand what he is saying to it ("I resign myself to you...")

a,b,d are the three sentences that use a reflexive pronoun

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.